guested with ULTRA on 5th of May, Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo and from 19th to 23rd of May in residence with Deserto Tattile
The title of the season is Vertigo. What is vertigo to you?
Vertigo is a deception of the body that activates the perception of illusory motion in the face of fear of emptiness. Vertigo can also be encountered in the face of fear of the unknown, of oblivion, as we venture into new lands and unknown worlds. To feel vertigo is to stand on the edge, to touch with our toes that step beyond which we feel we must push ourselves. With a hint of courage, the soleus muscle — located on the outer side of the tibia — is the first to be activated to hint at the step, and so we move forward, we throw ourselves proudly to swim into a new dimension leaving the safe harbor of the known.
What power does dance have to change the imaginary and/or act the world?
Dance brings to light the hidden, the intangible, and dancing allows us to get in touch with another dimension of our corporeality, to encounter the truth of bodies. A dancing body is a thinking organism, and its dance is thoughtful, sensitive, permeable, perceptive and diffuse in the multiplicity of elements that contribute to the totality of this scenic ecosystem. To dance with this awareness is to allow oneself to be pushed, to touch the center in order to radiate outward, to feel oneself at the crossroads of things in the world. Dance has the power to generate new languages that create and reread the world; embracing this heterogeneity enriches us, places us in relationships and supports the birth of a new idea of society.
You are going to perform two works, one of which is in progress. ULTRA is an investigation between body, sound, vocality, light and smell that questions the human. How is the body and humanity rethought or reinvented in your research? What is the relationship between ULTRA and Deserto Tattile in terms of rethinking the existential condition?
In a desire to insist on an inquiry into the deep relationship between man and nature, both creations interrogate our place in the world, our daily actions, and the positioning of the human vis-à-vis the present. ULTRA relies on the subsurface, the perceptual abilities of the plant and fungal kingdoms to train us to co-inhabit the world and include other knowledge, visions and languages in our perception; the new creation Deserto Tattile borrows the sense of touch as a perceptual capacity for activating a relationship, to explore the vertigo of place – physical and interior – of the desert, contemporary loneliness and bewilderment.